A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
From Dean Inge
Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.
In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.
Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.
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